New York City’s Working Fathers Get ‘Daddy Bonus’: Study

Trader Mark Zifchak, right, works with his son Luke on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in April as part of the 21st annual ‘Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day.’

Reuters

A new study by City University of New York has found that men with children earned higher incomes than any other population group in New York City between 1990 and 2010.

Titled, ”The ‘Mommy Tax’ and the ‘Daddy Bonus’‘ the report used data from the Census Bureau between 1990 and 2010, adjusted for inflation in 2013 values, to look at the relationship between gender, income and parenthood.

The study found that men with children earned a higher median personal income than other population groups, including men without children and women with or without children.

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